March OUSA Member Spotlight: Ali Crocker

This is a transcript of an interview with Ali in March, 2025. It has been edited for clarity and length.
Cristina Luis: Ali, I would like to hear about your athletic background, from the beginning, and how that melds into orienteering.
Alison Crocker: From the very beginning? Okay.
As early as you want to go. It doesn’t have to be the very beginning.
Okay. I think at my earliest ages I was dragged along to running races with my parents. Totally loved doing all the kids’ races. So I was active from the beginning, and then probably the first serious sport I did was cross-country skiing, up through young juniors. I went to a ski academy for one year–where Alex Jospe currently coaches. I just went there for the winter trying to take skiing really seriously. But then I went to a boarding school where there was more snow than at my house so I could ski but still do academics. And it was there that I discovered two new sports. First, I discovered rowing, which I took seriously for quite a while during all of high school.
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